Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22
Bill Nye on the Tar.AeeI Cow.


There is no place in the United States
so far as know, where the cow is more
versatile or ambidextrous, il | may be
allowed the use OF term that is far
above my station in life, than here in
the mountains OF North Carolina, where
the obese 'possum and the anonymous
distiller have their homes.
The life OF a North Carolina COW is
indeed fraught with varions changes
and saturated with zeal which is
praiseworthy in the extreme. From
the sunny days when the gambols
through the beautiful valleys, inserting
her black, retrousse and perspratlon
dotted nose into the blue grass from ear
to ear, until at life's close, when every
part and portion of her overworked sys-
tenn is turned into food, raiment or over
coat buttons, the life of the tar-heel
COW is one OF intense activity.
Jackasses IN the South are OF two
kinds, viz: male and female. Much
MS has been said OF the jackasses pro and
con, | do not remember ever to have
seen the above statement in print be-
fore, and yet it is as trite as it is incon-
trovertable. In the Rocky mountains
we call this animal the burro. There
he packs bacon. flour and salt to the
miners. The miners eat the bacon and
and flour, and with the salt they are
enabled 10 successfully salt the mines.
: Tn lburro has low, contralto voice
which ought TO have some machine oil
on it. The voice of this animal is not
unpleasant if he would pull some OF the
pathos out OF it and make it more Joy
Gus.
Here the jackass at times becomes
co-worker with the COW in hauling to-
baco and other necessities of life into
town, but he goes no further in the mat
ter of assistance. He. compels her to
tread the cheese press alone and con-
tributes nothing whatever in the way of
assistance for the butter industry.
The North Carolina COW is frequent
ly seen here driven double or single by
means OF a small rope line attached to a
tall emancipated gentleman, who is gen.
orally clothed with the divine right of
suffrage, to which he adds small pair
OF ear hobs during the holidays.
The COW is attached to each shaft and
small singletree, or swingletree, by
means of broad strap harness. She
also wears breeding, in which re-
spect she frequently has the advantage
OF her escort
think have never witnessed sad
der sight than that oil Ia new mich cow,
torn away from home and friends and
kindred dear, descending steep noun
tain road at rapid rate and striving in
her poor, weak manner to keep out OF
the way OF small Jackson-Democratic
wagon loaded with big hogshead full
of tobacco. 1t seems to me 80 totally
foreign to the nature of the cow to enter
into the tobacco traffic, line of bust
ness for which she can have no sympa-
thy and in which she certainly can feel
very little interest.
A great many people come here from
various parts of the world, for the
climate. When they have remained
here for one winter, however, they de-
eide TO leave it where it is.
1t is said that the climate here is very
much like that OF Turin. But / did
not intend to go to Turin, even before ]
heard about that.
Please send my paper to the same adj
dress, and If some one who knows q
good remedy for chilblains will contrib.
ute it to The Sabbath Globe ! shall
watch for it with great interest. Yours
as here "a, BILL NYE.
p. ST. should have said relative to
the COW of this State that if the owners
would work their butter more and
their COWS less they would confer q
great boon on the consumer Of both.